In Feb 1848, Crown Lands Commissioner, Oliver Fry, was told by a stockman and an Aboriginal man at Grafton about the poisonings and he set off for Thomas Coutts? station (Kangaroo Creek Station) to investigate. He found human remains but they were too decomposed for analysis. Coutts was arrested and brought to Sydney where he was bailed for 1,000 pounds, but was discharged in May for lack of evidence.

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